Background
Due to her father"s line of work, Mikiko has moved a lot in her childhood, which resulted in her growing up learning many languages and living in places such as Hong Kong and Brussels.
Due to her father"s line of work, Mikiko has moved a lot in her childhood, which resulted in her growing up learning many languages and living in places such as Hong Kong and Brussels.
In 1999 she moved to Germany, where she finished school.
She is fluent in German, English, Japanese and French. Together with American concept and comic artist Shaun Healey, she visited the 2010 SMASH! Convention in Sydney as guests of honour. Today she lives and works in Düsseldorf Germany.
In August 2007, Mikiko published her graphic novel Lost and Foundation at The Wild Side Publishing.
This, as well as her following artbook was released under her pseudonym Zombiesmile. Mikiko was hired as a graphic designer at the Wild Side Publishing for a few years, where she was responsible for the packaging, lettering and translations into German of various Comics.
At the release of her artbook BLUE, she gave a detailed interview to the Koneko magazine (issue 33, July/August 2009). In 2010 she was approached by Joachim Kaps, the head of the German branch of Tokyopop, to participate in an anthology project as an hommage to the Grimm"s Manga series, which has been published in July 2011.
With her contribution of King Thrushbeard her work is published alongside famous German comic artists such as Anike Hage (Gothic Sports), Anna Hollmann, Inga Steinmetz, Nina Werner and Reyhan Yildirim.
Since the beginning of 2010, she has been active as a tutor for the Comicademy for their online "Scribble Club" course. In the same year she was hired as a colorist for Rombies, a comic written by Tom Taylor (Star Wars, The Authority) and illustrated by Skye Ogden, for Gestalt Publishing. Throughout her freelancing years she has contributed various work for Subway (franchise), Animexx (German anime community), and Fireangels Publishing.
In 2011, she participated in a charity-auction organised by the German branch of Tokyopop to raise money for the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami victims.
At the end of the year, she was featured in an episode of Aufgezeichnet.tv, reviewing manga and graphic novels for the first time, and is now working as a presenter and reviewer on a regular basis for their online channel. In July 2012, her profile on deviantArt reached one million pageviews.
